Sitemeter platform change

Sitemeter in its blog has said the platform is being migrated to the new platform , the counter display will not be a part of the tracking code. rather it will be available as a seperate piece of code which you paste on the site.

The irony is that the shift of platform for sitemeter has caused several blogsites to crash. Arguably these site hits wont be ever recorded and it could be hypothesized that sitemeter team knew this. They must have given a code that would not fail in case sitemeter is not up.

Both Hot Air and Michelle Malkin sites have been affected. Gawker Media network including Gawker, Valleywag, Gizmodo and Lifehacker, as well as ProBlogger have been reported as affected.

Initial reports suggested that only IE7 was affected but it appears it is beyond web browsers. The IE error says "internet explorer cannot open the internet site operation aborted"



http://weblog.sitemeter.com/
"Visit or Page View Counter DisplayJuly 31st, 2008
For those of you who currently use the SiteMeter Icon that displays the total visitors to your site we wanted to let you know about some forthcoming changes to this feature.
Following the migration of all our SiteMeter customers to the new platform the counter display image will no longer be part of the tracking code. It will instead be available through a separate piece of code which you paste on your site just like you do with our statistics tracking code.
We’ve done this for a few reasons –
1 – It offers a slight improvement to performance and page load times.2 – It gives you the option of having it displayed on as few or as many pages as you want.3 – It allows you to place the code on any page you want, visible to site visitors or on a page only accessible by you the site owner.4 – It allows you to now have the option of displaying either Total Visits OR Total PageViews.
Our plan is that all SiteMeter customers currently using the icon with the counter display image will be have their icons changed to the static default SiteMeter icon following the migration to the new platform. After the migration you can then log into the new system, grab the new counter code at your leisure, select whether you want Visits or PageViews displayed and paste it on only the pages you desire.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause but we hope the new features and benefits will be appreciated.
Sincerely,The SiteMeter Team"